When I was in college, I "invented" the kegstool, which is a barstool seat top that would attach to keg shells. Got a patent, lost a bunch of money, learned a bunch. Good times. I learned a lot about beer, storage, transportation, etc.

There was a company out of Germany I thought was going to revolutionize beer distribution - Beer in Box. Basically, they de-carbonated beer, packaged it in bag in box, shipped it and had a system to re-carbonate at the tap. Kegs are incredibly expensive, heavy, don't grid/stack very efficiently, and most importantly, you need 7 of them on average to pour 1 tap (ones being filled, transit to and from, inventory and on tap). Boxes solved a bunch of problems for everyone. The beer must not taste as good. I don't know why it never caught on.

[0] https://patents.google.com/patent/US20080179935A1/en [1] https://techcrunch.com/2010/03/31/the-kegstool-a-bar-stool-m... [2] http://www.carbotek.com/beer-in-box#:~:text=Beer%2Din%2Dbox%....